Chinese learners achieve remarkable success levels compared to their Western peers. But it’s not simply based on rote learning and passive education. The reality is more complex – and more creative.
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The government is asking universities to register the Confucius Institutes they host under the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme. So, what are these institutes and what do they teach?
Education agents play a significant role in the fact that China is the number one source country of international students who study in Canada.
Uyghur re-education camps are counter-productive and could do exactly the opposite of what the Chinese state intends.
Chinese students make up the largest portion of international students in Australia. To ensure our A$28bn international education sector continues to thrive we need to pay more attention to why.
We need to rethink how we frame discourse about Chinese students who speak out at universities – we seem to have forgotten that argument is a normal part of university study.
It’s more important than ever that the U.S. understand China. So why don’t our universities teach Chinese thought?
Every year, 9 million students in China compete for just 6 million college admission spots. The systems that match students with schools are being overhauled. But will that improve outcomes?
£41m will be spent on ‘mastery learning’ – will it improve learning in primary schools?
It’s a mistake to allow teenagers to drop maths – it should be made compulsory at A-Level.
Debate is raging in China on what kind of ideas should be shaping the next generation.
The number of university students in China, including those in part-time higher adult education, expanded from 12.3m students in 2000 to 34.6m in 2013. China has become an exceptional example of increasing…
It is no secret that children of East Asian heritage excel at school. In England, for example, 78% of ethnic Chinese children obtain at least 5 A* to C GCSE grades, compared to a national average of just…
There has been much publicity in recent years about China and its teachers. After the most recent results from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) were published in 2013, considerable…
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